Oct 03
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Dead Stuff with Big Teeth Comments:
“But, I don’t see anything…”
“KEEP GOING, I SAID!”
“Look. Do you even know what a dragon is? Do you know what one looks like…?”
“FASTER!”
Published 1992

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Tagged with: bladed weapons • capes • castle • damsel • dragon • dude • Enchanted Forest series • font problems • headband • long hair • magic • once you see it • over sideways and under on a magic carpet ride • Scholastic Books • shoulder pads • Unknown Artist Institute
Sep 11
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Frank Comments: So much going on that it burns your eyes, or maybe you’ll put an eye out, it’s hard to tell!
Published 1959

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Tagged with: BEHIND YOU! • birds • blood • dogs • dude • E. Everett Evans • frickin laser beams • giant insects • Kelly Freas • Pyramid Books • shoulder pads • space • space ships
Dec 11
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Tom Noir Comments: In the future, everything will be needlessly complex and ridiculously over-engineered… except women’s clothing.
Published 1984

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Tagged with: Alan Dean Foster • antennae • bikini • cleavage • damsel • dude • eye-yi-yi • frickin laser beams • inadequate armor • Paul Alexander • planets • shoulder pads • space ships • space suit • tights • Warner Books
Oct 08
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Tom Noir Comments: With a sinking heart, Brad realized their skin-tight glam-rock outfits would not be an effective disguise in the forest.
Published 2007

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Tagged with: aliens • ant people • cyclops • damsel • David Drake • dinosaur • dude • font problems • forest • frickin laser beams • handguns • once you see it • shoulder pads • teleport • tights • Tor Books • Wayne Barlowe
Sep 18
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E’s Art Direction: If you could work a lime green fur shawl and a jedi-master rip off in there, that’d be great.
Published 1980

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Tagged with: Ace Books • bats • beard-wielding • bladed weapons • cloaks • dude • Esteban Maroto • furs • guitar • once you see it • puffy shirt • robes • Roger Zelazny • shoulder pads • Star Wars reference • sword • utility belt • waistcoat
Jun 20
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John C Comments: Yes, I think we have it in a size 12 in puce, let me just check out the back sir.
Published 1980

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Tagged with: alien city • cloaks • Larry Niven • moon • muscles • Orbit Books • Peter Andrew Jones • proportional issues • robes • shoulder pads
May 30
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Sara S Comments: This cover has everything. The cat-being is looking out at the reader as if to say, ‘How do you humans like it when we dangle something in front of YOU and then snatch it away, huh?’ The cherry on top of it all is the title artist who thought, ‘Wouldn’t it be great if the preposition ‘at’ didn’t line up with any of the other words on the cover?!
Published 2005

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Tagged with: anthropomorphism • Baen Books • bighanditis • cat people • damsel • David Mattingly • David Weber • evil children • explosion • font problems • Good Show Sir • once you see it • planets • proportional issues • shoulder pads • space ships
Aug 14
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MisterBOB Comments: Astronauts and furry alien return from a fishing trip, without a fish.
Published 1987

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Tagged with: Alan Gutierrez • aliens • Baen Books • bubble helmet • damsel • dude • Grant Callin • helmet-cam • jazz hands • once you see it • shoulder pads • space ships • space suit
Mar 19
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Colette’s Art Direction: We need to convey a Utopian future, so nothing represents that better than a pastel circuit-board Lego city with buildings encased in test tubes. Add a happy gorilla-headed torso man carrying a life-like unitard-wearing sex doll. Ooh, and lasers! And… and shoulder pads!
Published 1982

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Tagged with: anthropomorphism • ape people • Avon Books • damsel • dude • font problems • frickin laser beams • Haircut 100 • robots • shoulder pads • Stanislaw Fernandes • Stanislaw Lem • Ting! • trapezoid head • white-clothed protagonist • WTF
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